There has recently been discussion on the Internet concerning whether the Shuffle feature on your iPod is truly random. (Well, some things really are more important than others!)

How would you go about deciding whether the playing sequence is random? What would actually constitute randomness? An item about this issue can be found at http://ipodusers.tribe.net/thread/9c5fe30c-728a-44cf-9b6f-9ad426641d12 If it is gone by the time you search for it, it is highly likely that an Internet search would bring up closely related items.